Contributed by Laura Beck
Musk Ox Farm
PROXT! Our annual Oxtoberfest celebration occurs once again at the Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, Alaska, on Oxtober 7th. Mark your calendars and buy your tickets for the social event of the year! The gorgeous rolling pastures, with 76 frolicking musk oxen framed by beautiful mountain ranges, provide an idyllic setting to celebrate the season with beer, brats, baked goods, and music by Alaska Blaskapelle!
Oktoberfest, the original German festival, is now a worldwide phenomenon celebrating Bavarian culture and flowing pints of beer. If you know the Musk Ox Farm, you know we can’t pass up an oxportunity for a musk ox pun and to showcase our rendition of this fabulous festival celebrated during our favorite month, Oxtober!
The first Oxtoberfest at the Musk Ox Farm took place in 2016 in partnership with the Alaska Farmland Trust to celebrate the Musk Ox Farm entering a conservation easement agreement to ensure that the land would remain farmland forever. The event sold out quickly and immediately emerged as our biggest fundraiser of the year at the Musk Ox Farm. Celebrating Alaska grown, raised, crafted, and brewed, this farm-to-table feast features Alaska grown in every way possible. Handmade pretzels, sauerkraut, pickles, bratwursts, and German potato salad are all part of the traditional Bavarian fare served up Alaska-style. Did we mention the wüderfully crafted local biers, cider, ales, and signature Oxtoberweizen?
You can’t have a celebration of this kind without music! The featured music of Oxtoberfest is always provided by Alaska’s finest 12-piece Lederhosen-clad brass polka band, Alaska Blaskapelle. Dust off your best polka or waltz, or at least come ready for a raucous chicken dance!
Guests can choose their own oxperience for this year’s celebration! Everybody is a VIP this year with Bier Tent admission tickets. A festive crowd on the back lawn under the beer tent enjoys a delicious feast with the first beer included. Or folks can celebrate like a Burgermeister with an upgrade to VIP Loft Seating. A few seats remain for upstairs hayloft seating, with full table service that includes all food, beers, wines, dessert, and much more. You will also have oxclusive access to the expansive viewing deck overlooking the band, festivities, and farm.
Oxtoberfest takes place on Saturday, Oxtober 7th. Doors and beer garden open at 5 p.m.; food and festivities kick off at 6 p.m.
CONTACT:
Musk Ox Farm, 907-745-4151, info@muskoxfarm.org
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